Top 12 languages by game revenues (2014)

[Fei-Hung]

burning_phoneix said:

Fei-Hung said:
Surprised to see Arabic that high up since it is such a small minority in the world who speak it compared to English or other European languages.

Arabic is the 5th most Spoken language in the world with 422 million speakers. For a comparison, the number of French speakers is 220 million.

 

In that case, Arabic is actually much lower than where it needs to be.

 

Also, why bump a thread from 2014?

I know there are different dialects of Arabic spoken throughout the world, but i was more surprised since most Arabic places are not known to be modern. Places like Jordan, Syria, Libya, Beirut etc. For example many Somalians speak a dialect of Arabic but the country isn't as developed. Syria we all know the score. 

 

From the 420 million people out there speaking Arabic, if you remove the war torn countries, countries with high poverty and countries that ain't modern unlike Dubai, Qatar etc, you are left with a very small number.